Guns Anyone?



Here's an interesting article by Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds entitled "The Next International Right". It speaks about how after WWII, the world united against future genocide, but has since failed miserably at preventing it on several occasions. It also shows how the most disarmed populations are the most vulnerable. Hitler knew this when he disarmed much of his citizenry.

"Armed citizens, they argue, are far less likely to be massacred than defenseless ones, and armed resistance to genocide is more likely to receive outside aid. It is probably no accident that the better-armed resistance to genocide in Bosnia and Kosovo drew international intervention, while the hapless Rwandans and Cambodians did not. When victims resist, what is merely cause for horror becomes cause for alarm, and those who are afraid of the conflict’s spread will support (as Europe did) intervention out of self-interest when they could not be bothered to intervene out of compassion."

It's reassuring that Condi Rice, our current Secretary of State (a self described 2nd Amendment absolutist) values the right to bear arms and can even relate it to her experience growing up in this country:

"In an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live," Rice said she came to that view from personal experience. She said her father, a black minister, and his friends armed themselves to defend the black community in Birmingham, Ala., against the White Knight Riders in 1962 and 1963. She said if local authorities had had lists of registered weapons, she did not think her father and other blacks would have been able to defend themselves."

Posted: Thu - May 12, 2005 at 02:06 PM          

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